ESPN: If Manchester United loses Sunderland in the next round, Amorin s coach will be in real danger

Hupu September 29th ESPN famous reporter Mark Ogden wrote a column about Manchester United coach Amorin, talking about the future situation of the Portuguese in the Red Devils.

The following is the content of ESPN's article

Football management is ultimately a game of speaking with data, and every data Amorin at Manchester United is lit up with a red light.

The formula for success in the football world is always simple and clear: winning more than losing, scoring more than conceding, and making more correct decisions should be more than making mistakes. But the Portuguese coach is now completely losing out of these three basic principles - perhaps because he hasn't realized that his preferred 3-4-3 formation is adding to his difficult team.

Although Manchester United's management still insists on supporting the former Portuguese sports coach to the outside world, claiming that they can overcome the difficulties by just waiting for new players to adapt and the team to regain confidence, the criteria for judging professional football has never changed: results are the only yardstick for measuring coaches. From Tenhag, Solskjaer, Mourinho, Van Gaal to Moyes, the coaching position in Dream Theater has never lacked passers-by. Now, the clouds of continuous defeat are swallowing up the little time left for Amorin.

' defeat in Brentford 1-3 was the 17th defeat of the 40-year-old coach in coaching Manchester United in the 33rd Premier League. During this period, he scored only 34 points and averaged 1.03 points per game. Its league win rate is as low as 27.3%, even lower than Porter (26%) who was just fired by West Ham, making him unsurprisingly the worst Manchester United coach in the Premier League era. Moyes, who was fired after coaching for 10 months in 2014, maintained a 50% lower winning rate limit. Even Rangnick, who was in danger in 2022, won a 41.6% winning rate in 24 games.

Amorin's data has fallen below the bottom line: he scored only 39 goals in 33 league games, lost 21 games in 49 games in various competitions, and the total goals and conceded were equal to 95 goals. What is even more worrying is that the team has not won away games since defeating relegated Leicester City 3-0 away in March, and has never achieved two consecutive league wins. Last month, the League Cup was eliminated by the fourth-level team Greensby, and it was the first time the club lost to the opponent in this level in 147 years of history.

When CEO Bellada and football director Jason Wilcox, the two core decision makers who reported to Sir Ratcliff and Glazer, closed the meeting room door and looked at each other, what reason can they find to continue to support the troubled coach?

Sources revealed that the lack of credible and available alternatives (Harvey, Southgate, Glasner, Hulzer and Ilaura are all staying in the media rumors stage) is a key factor in Amorin's temporary retention. But the management is also aware that the team's performance is far below expectations, and the Portuguese coach failed to make the lineup that he took over in November last year show real progress.

The turmoil behind Old Trafford—hundreds of employees lost their jobs in cost-cutting plans—had indeed impacted the club's overall morale, which became a moderator when considering the coaching position. Amorin also doesn't have to be responsible for his ex's mistakes: When players such as Zilkerze and Ugat joined Tenhager's squad in the 2024 summer window, he did not coach the team - and in the same summer window, McTominay moved to Napoli for £25 million, but Manchester United spent twice the price to sign Ugat from Paris.

Amorin had hoped to sign an experienced goalkeeper to replace Onana this summer, but he eventually signed 23-year-old goalkeeper Ramons from Real Antwerp for £15 million due to the excessive cost of bringing in Donnarumma or Emiliano Martinez. Although he recently publicly stated that the club's midfield lacks athletic ability, Manchester United still has not signed a new midfielder. Instead, the 21-year-old teenager Collier, who made 16 appearances last season, has loaned West Brom without any reinforcement.

But it is worth thinking that despite the above problems, Manchester United still invested more than 200 million pounds this summer to introduce attackers such as Mbermo, Cunya and Seshko.

No matter how complex the situation is, data never lie - they are just ironclad evidence of the cruel reality calmly presenting. Therefore, when Amorin is about to usher in the 50th milestone in coaching Manchester United, any defense is pale. If he loses again against Sunderland this weekend, his coaching position will face a real threat and may even become his best singer in Dream Theater.